“A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp.” — Raymond Duncan

“In winter I get up at night / And dress by yellow candle-light. / In summer quite the other way / I have to go to bed by day.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

“It’s a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it’s light out.” — Calvin (Bill Watterson)

“Summer expectations — going to the beach every day, water fights, parties, road trips and barbecues. Summer reality– trying to find the right position to hold your phone so the sun doesn’t black out the screen.” — Anonymous

“Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there’s no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do.” — Nancy Gibbs

“When all else fails, take a vacation.” — Betty Williams

“A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.” — Robert Orben

“I need summer to be longer so I can have more time to do nothing.” — Anonymous

“Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.” — Hal Borland

“One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.” — Henry David Thoreau

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